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Matt Yglesias (officially) joins the Sorosphere [Karl]

I recently accepted a new job at the Center for American Progress where I’ll be working with the team that puts together ThinkProgress, the Wonk Room, and the Progress Report.Ã‚Â

Contrary to what he posted, Yglesias has actually taken a job with the American Progress Action FundÃ‚Â (APAF) — which is not the same thing as the Center for American Progress (CAP), for tax reasons.Ã‚Â Donations to APAF are not tax-deductible, but donations to CAP are. Ã‚Â Is YgelesiasÃ‚Â suggesting thatÃ‚Â a job at a 501(c)(4) organization (APAF) is being paid for with the tax-deductable funds given to a 501(c)(3) organization (CAP)? I doubt he is;Ã‚Â it is far more likely that Yglesias was just sloppy, even on a topic he should know intimately.

(The difference between 501(c)(3) and (c)(4) groups also seems to have real-world effects that folksÃ‚Â on the right likeÃ‚Â the Heritage Foundation should notice.Ã‚Â But I digress.)

Ramesh Ponnuru (echoing the error) suggests thatÃ‚Â Yglesias’s move will raise the IQ at the Center for American Progress.Ã‚Â Paraphrasing Robert Muldoon, it may also raise the IQ at The Atlantic.

When Matt started blogging, he was still as senior at Harvard — and was a regular commenter on my site. In the time I was gone from the blogosphere, he upgraded his own site, got a gig with American Prospect, then the Atlantic, and now at a think tank.

In short, he’s being paid handsomely for his political opinions.

Conversely, I’ve been offered nothing, and have gotten nowhere. Hell, I can’t even get a column or a radio show on Pajamas Media. So let’s not sell Matt short, lest we completely destroy my self esteem.

“When Matt started blogging, he was still as senior at Harvard Ã¢â‚¬â€ and was a regular commenter on my site. ….. he upgraded his own site, got a gig with American Prospect, then the Atlantic, and now at a think tank.”

Contrary to what he posted, Yglesias has actually taken a job with the American Progress Action Fund (APAF)

…where “Big Think Tank Matt” will continually whine about the influence of “right-wing” money from Scaife, CATO, Boz(o)-ell,etc.- while sucking off George Soros and Peter Lewis every day for $80k/yr + benefits.

“Running against eggheads has been a longstanding conservative trope, but one gets the sense that in recent years it’s more and more come to play a corrosive role in preventing conservative politicians from engaging in any kind of serious thought.”

It’s just that greasy Hungarian building infrastructure again. He’s the one that thinks we need a denazification process. No for real it’s what he said. There is no honor in sucking at the teat of a greasy Hungarian I don’t think.

Have you had cow brains, dre? Hungarians eat cow brains. I know cause there was a restaurant … some Hortabagy thing … across the street from me that served cow brains. I never had any. It had been there forever but then it closed. I want to say it was called Lazlo’s Hortabagy. I would mostly just walk by and it was always really old people in there.

“Oh. That makes me sad I didnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t really eat at that Hortabagy place while I had the chance.”

Alex on the roadside:

“Alex has, in the past, sold hortobagy pies on the roadside at rush hour at his corner. Spicy meat pie sandwiches that were just fantastic. Some jerk probably called the city on him, though, because I havenÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t seen him do it in a while. “

Jeff: You’re confusing Quality and Popularity. There are fashions in thought. Matt’s thoughts are very fashionable. One day, however, he”s going to look like a right as–along with the rest of the Left.

The problem with payback, unfortunately, is that it never comes soon enough.

Comment by Fletch on 7/17 @ 4:25 pm #
Ã¢â‚¬Â¦where Ã¢â‚¬Å“Big Think Tank MattÃ¢â‚¬Â will continually whine about the influence of Ã¢â‚¬Å“right-wingÃ¢â‚¬Â money from Scaife, CATO, Boz(o)-ell,etc.- while sucking off George Soros and Peter Lewis every day for $80k/yr + benefits.

Only 80K? Wow that sucks for someone with over 6 years experience and a Harvard degree.

When Matt started blogging, he was still as senior at Harvard Ã¢â‚¬â€ and was a regular commenter on my site. In the time I was gone from the blogosphere, he upgraded his own site, got a gig with American Prospect, then the Atlantic, and now at a think tank.

In short, heÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s being paid handsomely for his political opinions.

Conversely, IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ve been offered nothing, and have gotten nowhere. Hell, I canÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t even get a column or a radio show on Pajamas Media. So letÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s not sell Matt short, lest we completely destroy my self esteem.

Jeff,

As soon as I win Powerball, you are on the payroll as The Boss!.

Your logic skills and slightly (?) right of center mullings make you an untouchable in this new millennium. No money for anyone who remembers!

This news immediately gave me a (gruesome) mental picture of Yglesias going through an Animal House-style fraternal rite of initiation with George Soros, armed with a giant paddle, in charge of it all:

“Are you, Matthew, prepared to accept the bond of Obedient Progress?”

“Sir, yes, sir!”

“Assume the position.”

*WHACK* “Thank you sir, may I have another?” *WHACK* “Thank you sir, may I have another?” *WHACK* “Yeooooowwww, THANK YOU SIR, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER?”

I always thought of him as some guy still living in his parents’ basement, after graduating from high school. At least his writing and ideas appeared to be at that level. Liberal think tanks will take anybody.

Oh, I just scrolled up for Jeff’s retirement. Because having the hot wife and cute kid is such a drag compared to sitting on a couch in the dark with two scarily similar-lookin’ dweebs. And running into the blogosphere at the laundromat.

If you don’t want a “venti cappucino light frappeÃ¢â‚¬Â, I’m sure we can offer a a “highland Columbian” coffee bean freshly squeezed from the tapeworm infested asshole of a peasant still living a real “ca. 1740 A. D. lifestyle” in the 21st century while you’re buying a cheap imitation at a “Sonic drive-thru” in your “tricked out” 97 Hyundai with only a 120 watts pumping your boomer…

thank you geoffb. My new for real tasty beverage today was Diet Pepsi Jazz Caramel Cream. It was nothing to get excited about. It’s a diet cream soda for women 25-54 I think. You can tell cause of the emphasis on the low sodium. I have eleven left. It’s a diet cream soda is all. This kind of though is one of those ones you really have to either have over ice or you have to open it and let it breathe in the fridge for 10-15 minutes or you just taste fizz and none of the caramel nuances. Which are nothing to get excited about anyway. It’s a diet cream soda soda. I have eleven left.

I will look for that. Oh. They’re the same people that make Shasta and Faygo. I tried Faygo the first time when I was in Jersey a couple months ago. A diet chocolate soda, kind of like Canfield’s but not as tasty.

“There are fashions in thought. MattÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s thoughts are very fashionable. One day, however, heÃ¢â‚¬â„¢Ã¢â‚¬â„¢s going to look like a right asÃ¢â‚¬â€œalong with the rest of the Left.”

When all these Leftists are packing paper scraps in the cracks of their barracks in one of the Socialist Workers’ Retraining camps scattered across what used to be Northern Canada, they’ll find their words in the dead copies of the New Yorker, the Atlantic, The Times, The Globe, and all the other media mouthpieces that urged GOVERNMENT TO TAKE STEPS…. they’ll find their words on features. Above the fold. Serialized in next months issue, and in partnership with “fill in other insular blue echo chamber with a press and an endowment” and those words will line up at night and just fucking laugh like maniacs , laugh like there’s no tomorrow, and pretty soon those bitter, sorry ass sonsabitches will hear the laughter… over the groans… even in the dead calm subzero cold of a moonless Saskatchewan forest.

They’ll wish then they had the days where a poorly thought out tattoo or careless joke infected with race/class/or gender poison splashed back. They would certainly want another run at maybe not being quite so at the leading edge of the intellectual charge… nor the bloody, notched edge of the charge that kept the intellectuals on the field all those many times.

I reckon when the Hungarian and his minions finally figure that they’ve got the deeds sewn up for what physical control they’ll need before all else, and have assumed control over the wants and proxies three levels removed to control any threat or future prize that isn’t literally in his name. The pundits, the activists, the O!rganizers of the Movement are all line crossers, window breakers, and can rationalize any act they desire to committ into a NECESSARY STEP to a BETTER FUTURE. By then, that is to say, the usefull idiots will have disestablsished whatever shaky power groupings that happened to be left; leaving only fecund ground for the implementation for the NEW Plan.

Plans always gotta have energy, and energy comes from fertilizer. A plan …. treated like a plant… has a code and instructions. So the gardener gets to do all the talking. And the folks in the camps…by the by, they come into play eventually – their names even held up for praise or opprobrium.

Often such events mark the last time those names will ever pass human lips or the printer’s template.

It’s always thus, when the next utopia emerges. Can’t have peace, love, and plenty without bottomless basements calling out for shovels, lime, and TURN OUT THAT LIGHT!

History. You may not be interested in it. It is most assuredly interested in all of us, and we will play our appropriate parts when the wheel turns to us.

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